Without WinterCurating Environmental Imaginaries

Screening and Discussion, 14 Mar 2019, 19:30

After the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, the northern hemisphere was plunged into cold and darkness under a cloud of ash, creating what came to be known as ‘the year without a summer'.

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Voice and Environment

Workshop, 18 Mar 2019, 13:00

This workshop will explore physical, cultural, sonic, and social interactions between voice and environment, as well as issues relating to atmosphere, climate change, precarious vocality, and varied physical and cultural dynamics of breath and breathlessness.

Organized by Zeynep Bulut and J. Martin Daughtry, supported by the Department of Music and Sonic Arts Research Centre, School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s University Belfast and the Department of Music, Faculty of Arts & Science at New York University

Marie KolkenbrockDr. Freud meets Dr. Schnitzler

Lecture, 23 Apr 2019, 20:00

The talk will introduce the productive, but also extremely ambivalent intellectual and personal relationship between Freud and this literary writer.

A cooperation of the BIPP, the Department of Cultural History and Theory of the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and the ICI Berlin, organized by Wilhelm Brüggen (BIPP), Monika Englisch, and Andreas Gehrlach (HU Berlin)﻿

Materialism and Politics

Conference, 24 -26 Apr 2019

What is the relevance of materialism for thinking the political? Throughout modernity, materialism has been associated with fatalism, naturalism, heresy, and linked to radical ideas such as republicanism and democracy.

Organized by Bernardo Bianchi, Émilie Filion-Donato, Marlon Miguel, and Ayse Yuva. An event of the Centre Marc Bloch in cooperation with the ICI Berlin, the FU Berlin, and the TU Berlin

Please note: The first and second day will take place at Centre Marc Bloch, the third day at ICI Berlin.